‘Tis the season and time for some holiday fun. First up is decorating the lab door. We decided to go a different direction this year; instead of all the cute Christmas themes we took a darker approach. We borrowed from the old myth of Krampus and St. Nicholas from Germany (at least we think that’s where it originated). Krampus goes around with St. Nicholas and beats children who have been bad and any kids that have been really bad will be tossed in his sack and stolen.
In our case, Ben is now Krampus and he is stealing potential grad students while whipping the rest of us to work harder. Poor Santa is running away while Krampus is destroying some of our work in his caldron. We will have to wait until the Department Christmas Party on Thursday to see how the rest of the department likes our door…
Our Christmas Party was fun as always. Kelly won a door prize and the lab is now trying to convince her she needs to share all the tasty treats with the lab. Sadly, the lab did not win “best decorated door.”